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N0. 693,393. Patented Feb. 13, I902.

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: (Application filed Aug. 27, 1901.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIBERT S. HOOKLAND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA BOOK.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 693,393, dated February1 8, 1902. Application filed August 27, 1901. $erial No. 73,459. (Nomodel.)

To a whom it may concern:

Be it known that LSIBERT S. HOOKLAND, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania,have invented new and useful Improvements in Books, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of books used in bookkeeping; and itconsists in such a book having an illustrative leaf arranged in advanceof its ordinary leaves, the said illus-' -trative leaf being divided bylines of perforations into slips susceptible of ready disconnection fromthe book and each other, and the said slips being provided on theirfaces with printed forms of entries of different kinds and instructionsappropriate to the character of book embodying the illustrative leaf.The slips of the illustrative leaf are designed to be detached one byone and copied by a student or used as guides by a bookkeeper instarting the keeping of the book on the ordinary leaves or pagesthereof,and consequently it will be appreciated thatthe saidillustrative leaf is calculated to materially facilitate the learning ofthe correct mode of keeping the book by either a student or a bookkeepernot versed in such particular mode;

With the foregoing in mind the invention will be fully understood fromthe following description and claim, when taken in conjunction with theaccompanying drawing,in which the figure is aplan view of an open bookembodying my invention, the same being shown with the lower right-handcorner of the illustrative leaf broken away to illustrate the ordinaryleaves beneath'the same and also with the cover partly broken away.

The cover A and the leaves B may be of the ordinary or any suitableconstruction, and the latter may be connected to the former in the usualor any approved manner without departing from the scope of my invention,the novelty of which resides in the illustrative leaf 0 in conjunctionwith the leaves B. The illustrative leaf in the preferred embodiment ofthe invention is arranged in advance of the.

leaves B and connected to the cover A in the same manner as said leavesB. I It is divided by a longitudinal line of perforations a, disposedadjacent to its inner edge, and crosswise lines of perforations b,disposed at intervals of its length and extending from the line a to itsouter edge into a plurality of slips 0. These slips are shown asprovided with forms of entries appropriate to a journal; but it isobvious that they might be provided with forms of entries suitable to acash or other book when used in such a book without departing from thescope of myinvention. They are also numbered in consecutive order fromthe top of the page downwardly, and some of them are provided withlines, also numbered in consecutive order toward the bottom of the pageand indicating the date of the entries below them. The slip-numbers arein parenthesis, as are also certain instructions on some of theslips,and such matter is of course tobe omitted when the entries on the slipsare entered on the leaves B of the book.

In the practical use of my improved book the student detaches theuppermost slip c of the leaf 0 and after placing the name of the firstpage of theleaves B copies the entries 'on said said slip on page,omitting, as before stated, the matter in parenthesis and using his (thestudeuts) own name. With this done, the student detaches the next lowerslip c and after drawing a red line across the first page of the leavesB below the first-named tries on the second slip. The student thuscontinues to detach the slips 0 one by one and copy the entries on saidslips on the first page of the leaves B and separate the entries of theconsecutive days by properly-numbered red lines until the illustrativepage is entirely used up, when he will be sufliciently conversant withthe mode of keeping the book to continue the same without the aid of theillustrative page.

When my improvements are used by a bookkeeper to familiarize himselfwith a mode of bookkeeping new to him, he detaches the slips of theillustrative leaf one by one and follows the instructions thereon in thesame manner as the student; but instead of copying the entries on thesaid slips he uses said entries as guide forms and makes his entries onthe pages of the leaves B from the data he city and the current date atthe top of the has at hand. When he has detached and used all of theslips comprised in the illustra tive leaf, he, like the student, will besufficiently familiar with the mode of bookkeeping to continue the samewithout the aid of the auxiliary leaf.

It will be appreciated from the foregoing that notwithstanding itssimplicity and the fact that it does not add materially to the cost of abook my improved illustrative leaf is calculated to materially assist astudent in learning how to keep a book in accordance with a certainsystem and is also calculated to enable a bookkeeper to start a book inaccordance with a system new to him and master such system. It will alsobe appreciated that by providing cash and other books used inbookkeeping with illustrative leaves (3, having slips 0, bearing formsof entries appropriate to the respective characters of the books, astudent or bookkeeper using the slips in the manner described will beenabled to readily become familiar with the proper mode of keeping saidbooks.

I desire it distinctly understood that in lieu of connecting theillustrative leaf to the cover in the same manner that the leaves 13 areconnected saidillustrativeleaf might be attached in any approved mannerdirectly to the cover A or the leaves 13 without departing from thescope of my invention; also, that the forms of entries and theinstructions regarding headings, ruled lines, numbering of the entriesand pages, 850., on the slips 0 may be varied to suit the illustrativeleaf in every respect 3 to the character of the book in which it isplaced. I further desire it understood that the instructions and othermatter on the slips 0, which are not to be copied on the leaves B, maybe distinguished from the forms of en- 4 tries by peculiar forms of typeor by other means in lieu of placing such instructions and other matterin parenthesis.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 4 1s The book for the purpose described comprising thecover, the plurality of ordinary leaves, and the illustrative leafarranged in advance of the ordinary leaves; the said illustrative leafbeing divided by a longitudinallydisposed line of perforations andcrosswise lines of perforations into detachable slips, and the saidslips being provided on their faces with printed forms of entries ofdiffer- 5 ent kinds and instructions appropriate to the character of thebook.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

SIBER'I S. HOOKLAND.

\Vitncsses:

GEO. W. REED, W. R. HAYWARD.

